Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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ihe if Dragonj ByJERRY From the beginning, man has spent a lot of time slaying dragons. It made little difference then, as it makes little difference now, if the dragon is real or imagined. '[he current Gamecock "crisis" is beginning to shape up as another witch hunt. The powers that control the Gamecock (Ad ministration, Faculty, Trustees, and State Legislators) are massing with torches in hand. The reason for the crusade is not the recent Bursey letter. The true cause of the uproar goes much further than any one single issue of the GAMECOCK. For the past few years, the GAMECOCK has been moving from the realm of "Campus Billboard" toward the direction of a vital campus communications publication. This transition is at best a rough one. The old format of fraternity and sorority news mixed with sports and dance schedules does not die easily. The implementation of real news, mixed with issues that affect the student even if they do not take place on campus, is a hard chore. There are those who would keep any issue that does not occur on campus out of the paper. These people don't believe that just because something affects the lives of students the issue deserves space that could have gone to sports. 'There are also those who fear a real paper, dealing with real issues and not safely confined to such plastic and antiseptic issues as pep rallies. i'his is not to say that the GAMECOCK is blameless. There have bc, n times thi year when through sheer whim, the editorial policy has sought to create reac tion. Letter Hines DEAR MR. BEEBE: The letter of May 19, 1971, by Mr. Dick Monteith called into question the existence of a senior class project for the class of 1971. Yes, Mr. Monteith, there is a senior class project. Throughout the year numerous possibilities for a project were considered. Finally the list was narrowed, and a student opinion poll was held. If the poll was not well advertised, It was not the fault of the senior class which submitted two separate press releases to campus media prior to the ballotting. The project chosen was that of a mural of the 1850 campus to be painted In the University House. The University House, "wherever that Is", Mr. Monteith, Is located opposite Capstone and has been chps0a, as the primary site for official University entertainment fgsetloss. 'As such,.the U v Ity If.# will: be the site'f o allidh rIYf'atr is sh as iquisition Slayygl LALABRESE 'There have been times when the GAMECOCK broke worthwhile journalistic rules. unnecessarily. As well as times when the staff disagreed violently with the policy of the Editor. But there have also been people who felt that they were too im portant to be made fun of or questioned. 'T7hese people seem to think that a position in the USC structure guarantees freedom from criticism. They are wrong. Now that they have checked the rules by which the University is governed and found that according to these rules, they are wrong, they are seeking to change the rules. Some members of the Board of Communications and Publications that controls the GAMECOCK have cried all year long for reform. 'T7hey claim that the GAMECOCK should be "brought into line with the University policy." Their reform smacks of repression. The sad fact is that the loudest advocates of "reform" are the members of the board who claim to be journalists. 'The same men who choose to become part of a profession irrevocably tied to freedom of expression now call for the restricting of the GAMECOCK. These men are not journalists or educators. They may have been once, but they are no longer. They have become pompous and impressed with their importance. They now seek to squash the very freedom they preached from the front of so many classrooms. They are hypocrites, not journalists. The GAMECOCK- needs to be upgraded. The GAMECOCK needs a retrenchment of journalistic style. The GAMECOCK needs internal reform. '1he GAMECOCK does not need to be tried, convicted and executed by an assemblage of men caught up. in their self im portance and blind to the ideals they have allegedly based their lives around. replies Homecoming. Also, it is available to student organizations upon request. TIhe beautiful gardens, tasteful architecture and lush interior make the University House by far one of the more at tractive areas of our campus. As for functioning, Mr. Monteith, the Class of 1971 has raised more hard cash than either of the two previous classes. Hundreds upon hundreds of letters have been mailed, senior class officers spent much valuable time planning and executing the opinion poll. Also, all student organizations have been requested to appoint a senior representative to solicit funds. By the way, Mr. Monteith, for some reason we have not received your contribution to the senior class project. Before you make any further comments on the faults of the senior class president, please makeup your mind to either put up .or shut Un Honors Pr new indep While Victorians strolled through the Great Exhibition or praised the intrepid Light Brigade or celebrated the Queen's Jubilee, what was Karl Marx doing in the British Museum? or Charles Darwin aboard the Beagle? or the anonymous author of My Secret Life among the backstreets and bordellos or 19th-century London? A new program of Honors Seminars, beginning with English :97h In the Fall, will consider such questions as these in relation to what Englishmen were reading in the great periods of their literature. The seminars will offer a unique combination of distinguished guest lecturers and interdisciplinary surveys of those figures in intellectual history who loomed most imposingly over the literary imaginations of their age. The sub.ject of the initial seminar is "Victorian Revolutions." The -revolutionaries" are Marx, Ruskin, Darwin" Baudelaire, Wagner, Krafft-Ebing and Nietz sche-. their revolutions were those which determined the course of Victorian thought--the dialectical materialism of Marx, the radical departures of 'Turner and the Pre REPEAT SELLO1 Brif skhMIS 100% NYLC RAINCOA only 9.. Great for jeans, raincoat oi as a lightweight jacket...10( percent nylon folds smnai enough to pack in a pocket Lt. Blue, Lilac or Yellow Sizes S.M.L. Spoi Iswear dept., All stores on main ogram offert en dent stud, Raphaelites in painting, the evolutionary, theories of Darwin, the symbolism that was ger minated in Baudelaire's Fleurs du Mal. the music-drama or toesammkuns1werke of Wagner, the fascination with sexual psychopathy prompted by the researches of Krafft-Ebing, the still unmeasured shocks of Nietz sche's insights into art and society. Each of these major figures will be introduced in one of a series of tormal lectures to be delivered by distinguished members of the iniversity faculty. The seminars will subsequently try to determine the significance of these revolutionary thinkers and artists in relation to English literature. Such documents as paintings, pamphlets, films and recordings will also be considered. Students will work closely with Professor Dunlap, the coordinator of the course, as well as with the guest lecturers, emphasizing in terdisciplinary concerns in their own essays and projects. Though the seminar may appear forbiddingly ambitious in scope, it is designed as an introductory survey for under-graduates with OF A JT ! IN T. ~- o D.1MAUE.. DUJTCH SQUAN1 only the most cursory knowl0d of those figures to be studied. The Ilonors Seminars are part of a revised Honors Program in English that also offers an in tensive option for second-Semester seniors, who may elect to receive up to 15 hours credit for a project of their own divising. Anyone who has completed sophomore English requirements and who has an overall grade-point average of 3.0 or better is eligible to take the Honors Seminar. One need not be an English major to part.icipate. Further information about the seminars and the Honor Program in English may be o tained from Professor Dunlap, lirector of the Honors Program in English, or Professor Geckle, I)irector of the University Honors Program. Senate ow'.minued from Page 1) All chartered organizations must submit each semester a list of officers and a brief report of the group's activities to the dean for student activities. NO